There are plenty of reasons to be wary that David Benioff and D.B. Weiss are going to take the reins of a few Star Wars movies, even if you are a fan of their adaptation of George R. R. Martin’s A Song of Ice and Fire series. The new movies, which will be separate from the main series following the Skywalkers andRian Johnson’s recently announced trilogy, could be about anything in that galaxy far, far away, but fans are hoping that it’s not like Westeros.

Lucasfilm President Kathleen Kennedy called the pair “some of the best storytellers working today,” but their work on Game of Thrones has been dogged by issues regarding the depiction of rape and abuse, and in many cases these problematic additions to the plot weren’t even part of Martin’s original books.

"Oh, it seems we've made one of the best received Star Wars films of all time, beloved by men and women, what shall we do next, how about hire some guys who gravitate towards rape as a plot device, set piece, and ambient backdrop"

One of the few positive things Star Wars has going for it representation wise is that there’s no rape in the main canon. That’s rare for a genre franchise. But sure hire the men who can’t write a woman w/o raping her. pic.twitter.com/T5iK8Vm9WI

In the immediate wake of the news breaking, some Twitter users reminded people that, last we heard, Benioff and Weiss were going to make a show about an alternate universe where the South won the Civil War. It’s unclear if HBO’s Confederate is even still happening, as it gathered a hornets’ nest of bad buzz long before this Star Wars announcement. But folks on social media weren’t about to forget.

I don’t particularly want to see Benioff/Weiss Star Wars movies, but they at least make Confederate that much less likely to ever happen.

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I'll bet you $1,000 that instead of making CONFEDERATE for HBO, they're making a trilogy about how the Empire really wasn't that bad, and how there were heroes "on both sides" of the Battle of Yavin. https://t.co/kRYoUnThaC

People on Twitter tend to react to things immediately and passionately, and there’s a tendency to overreact and go for the joke. Having said that, people are not seriously worried that Benioff and Weiss are going to turn Star Wars into a hard-R franchise where twins don’t just kiss, but fuck. The bigger issue is that this is a missed opportunity. Even though Lucasfilm is making a lot of Star Wars movies, there are still only so many slots for multi-million-dollar tentpole films they can give out. And, every single upcoming Star Wars movie, including these just-announced films, is being helmed by a white guy, though there aren’t any directors for the films the Thrones duo is writing and producing yet.

What new perspectives could other people bring to Star Wars, if they were given the chance? Given the early success of Black Panther, there’s commercial, narrative, and social reasons to hire diverse filmmakers. And, if Lucasfilm is not going to hire diverse filmmakers, do they really want to hire the folks behind a good fantasy series that’s nonetheless riddled with all sorts of unsavory problems?

Quentin Tarantino doing a Star Trek movie. David Benioff and D.B. Weiss doing a series of Star Wars films. When will women and people of colour have these kinds of opportunities? Smh pic.twitter.com/7YCoIIZObU